Poll: Customized Fedora

[Adam T. Gautier]

>Sounds a lot like what kickstart already can do + extra packages and a
>web frontend.
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Kickstart is a big part of the idea, if not only because of it's 
importance in relation to Anaconda.  The web portion is to make package 
resolution easier.  Which in my opinion is a pain in the but right now.  
The web portion would span lots of third-party repositories.  That is 
the reason it is web-based: I think this can only be solved in a 
networked setting and a webapp is the fastest/easiest way to gurantee 
that the system is in a networked environment with updated package 
info.  Also, kickstart can add customization through scripting only (pre 
and post scripts) which is fine but I also want to build a customized 
Anaconda that is more modular and can have some pre-built functions 
(Example: Configuration for apache that allows finer grained control of 
the modules being initialized, sure you could edit the file in /etc but 
if you are install 5-10 in a loadbalancing situation it becomes a 
pain).  These customizations may best be addressed in the first boot 
script or Anaconda, depends on the job.  Also, all of the additions to 
Anaconda should be easily scriptable using kickstart.